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It's very pretty to see what mankind is able to do with hydraulic fluid and diesel and steel and a little ballast!!

Just remember in the day when these tracks first went down all of this was done by HAND Over weeks and months of physical labor to place these tracks so that we are able to enjoy All types of products from around the world and in the USA! In the 1800's most people would not travel More then 20 miles, you might cover 10 miles in a day, now you do that in minutes on the highway. it is amazing how the train systems Created inexpensive transport for both people and cargo.

I was a gandy dancer back in 1950/1951on the Jersey Central doing all those jobs manually. I hated tie replacement, we could not raise the rails, had to dig each one out. Eventually, even though I was only 18, I got to run the tamping machine. It was an early version built by Pullman and it dropped a three ton head, five smashes for each tie. And, don't hit a tie or the foreman would get very upset. The track would be jacked at each joint and one jack in the middle based on the foreman sighting by eye. When I got to a jack a worker would drop the jack after I had hit the preceding tie three times and sometimes when they dropped the jack I could feel the machine drop, not good. That was the days of steam on the JC, I loved watching the big Pacific's pulling our crack train, the Queen of the Valley thru the New Jersey farmland. Happy Memories

I remember watching train crews do track maintenance in front of our house. It always, and still does, makes me think of a parade.

Lived by the tracks for 7 years now & all I've caught a glimpse of is a track cleaner at night all lit up like a spaceship tipped & cruising along. This is really neat to see!

Absolutely without a doubt one of the most fascinating things to watch from begining to end.....I marvel at how they get these LORAMS and MOWs to do this fasscinating work....great video , very interesting

Spike and the Tie Gang!

As someone who works for csxt I'm amazed by the ignorance in the comments. To answer everyone's questions about why not concrete? First it doesn't do well in wet environments that freeze. Csxt can buy in bulk, so its there choice for their railroad. It's not determined by unions or anything of the sort. Second maintenance on concrete takes a whole set of different equipment. this way there entire railroad MoW is standardized. These guy work hard and are away from their families for sometimes weeks at a time. This is a traveling tie and surface gang.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

8 жыл бұрын

+TheNemosdaddy just to add, there are a couple very small sections of concrete ties

@TheNemosdaddy

8 жыл бұрын

+BaltimoreAndOhioRR Yes, its my understanding that have reasons for concrete ties in very specific areas. Some is long term durability testing, some is for other reasons. BTW your video is of great quality. I am by no means a "company man", but I don't like the ignorant comments I see from some of the people. People forget to that the railroad is privately owned and they can do as they please. The unions don't even have much of a say anymore.

@jamesjacocks6221

8 жыл бұрын

@nemosdaddy: I stand corrected about which ties are replaced but alignment is maintained either way. Thanks for the freeze explanation--I missed that one.

@MrWomojo

8 жыл бұрын

+TheNemosdaddy there are many reasons for concrete sleepers. Durability, resistance to lateral displacement, easier to be reused, no toxic components... But you are wrong about wet areas and freezing. To modern, prestressed concrete sleepers that's no Problem at all. And "modern" means the last 50 years. As a matter oft fact -especially under more difficult conditions concrete proved to be the better and more sustainable choice.

@CiprianCosaru

8 жыл бұрын

+MrWomojo you are right, I am working for subcontractors of London Underground and their plan is to change all the wooden sleepers with concrete ones, but is expensive that is why in US they do not want to change them

When you think you have seen about everything. That machinery is amazing. thank you for posting

Thank you for this one! I'd only seen bits and pieces of how this was done, and now I've seen it in-depth. Fascinating!

railroads and truckers keep this country going.

The geniuses who invent these machines!

One of the BEST MOW videos on You Tube, bar none. Absolutely first class, as usual!

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for always watching and commenting my videos!

FERROVIA DE PRIMEIRO MUNDO É ESSA AI GOSTEI MUITO DE VER CADA MAQUINÁRIO FORA DE SÉRIE NÃO É ESSAS QUE TEMOS AQUI NO BRASIL NÃO, PARABÉNS CSX VOCÊS ARRASAM GOSTO MUITO DE VER ESSA FERROVIA NOTA 100.000 PARA VOCÊS PARABÉNS CSX.

Years ago for a job in the summertime I was hired on with a Bridge Building Crew. It was a very hard job. Everything was done by hand with shovels and steak bars. then the fun of driving the track pins with a long nose hammer. I built up a strong sense of work ethics. Great for football in the fall when I went back to school.

@austinyingst5902

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Schreiber My brother did track gang to get ready for HS football. No machines for his gang. Hard, backbreaking work.

i worked around a coal preperation plant which in the past was called a tipple then we used to drop rail road cars loaded and un loaded the moat dangerous joj they could take in a hurry when the brakes failed.i have been around trains for 60 years and I still love to watch them,

My grandfather worked on a section crew for Norfolk and Western in the 50's. He would have been amazed to see this!

So pleased to these amount of respectful views, this video thoroughly deserves it, you dont get to see this kind of engineering everyday.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

8 жыл бұрын

+TheBadabiing Thanks always for your comments!

This is such a wonderful ballet of machines!

I like watching all those machines in action... Excellent footage!

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

9 жыл бұрын

Jose Luis Ochoa Padilla thanks for commenting!

CSX is replacing ties on the tracks between Florence and Lake City, SC right now. Even though I worked for a MOW equipment manufacturer and a DMU/Railcar manufacturer, I never got to see the equipment working close up. With this video I don't have to stand along side U.S. 52 and watch what they are doing. Well, maybe when they get to town I can stand along ACLine Street and watch. I always wondered what the cranes and other pieces of equipment were doing besides the tampers. Great video!!! Thanks.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

8 жыл бұрын

+Fred Wood thanks! If I had known this would have been so appreciated and gotten so many views, I would have tried to do it a little better.

21:04 LOL! Never knew they had a Zamboni machine for railroad tracks. Seriously though, I am amazed at how much this work has been automated through the years. I know some track workers now long retired/deceased who used to bust their butts doing all this by hand. They would be slack-jawed at this sight.

What an operation. Sweeper truck guy sure has it tough.

these engines for replacing ties are magical, thanks for sharing so beautiful sights!!!

A declare this video a winner. This gets an automatic 5 star rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🎥 I'm very moved by this very construction of all this Maintenance Of Way equipment on the tracks of CSX. A great job by the Videographers & CSX. track crews making me also a model railroader very pleased. Thank you BALTIMORE & OHIO for presenting this. 👋👋👋👋👋 🚦🚦🚦🚦🚦🛤🛤

Really impressive, never had seen something like this before.

I live across the road from the segment of the CSX that runs from Baltimore, MD to Hanover PA. I watched the gang move through when they redid the section near me in 2008. They prestaged the replacement ties and had inspectors mark ties for replacement before the equipment gang moved through. Once they arrived, they could do about a mile a day or so, replacing about 40% of the ties.

Excellent work Dave this was worth watching! Not something you see everyday.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

10 жыл бұрын

Thx!!

Very nice video. Thank You and Thumbs Up. Many Greetings Andreas

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for visiting💜

Great video. I think the only think it is lacking is some kind of on-screen labeling of what is happening. Especially the many different passes dealing with the ballast. It would be interesting to know what each pass is doing. Looks like a lot of work, even with all the equipment...

Very interesting and cool video, thanks for sharing!

I so miss this kind of work did it for 7 years with Norfolk Southern railroad MOW rail gang I only quit bc I was away from home and didn't see my kids as often as I'd like

When I worked on the D&H crews one summer back when I was in high school we did it the hard way!

Great video that serves as a tutorial on how to work on the railroad tracks. Congratulations !

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

3 жыл бұрын

Thx!

Anyone else find this "Pleasing" to watch?

@bltefft

7 жыл бұрын

I did.

@joecies

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, pleasing to watch but MADDENING to listen.

@fredhoffman6658

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it would be boring and ended up watching the whole thing. Very interesting.👍😁

@donaldkepple4927

4 жыл бұрын

Great!

Fascinating video :) Thanks for sharing!

That man gets to hand feed spikes into the slots all day.

I did this work b4,i worked for a company called C.R. CONSTRUCTION.(CLEAVLAND RAIL CONSTRUCTION)that first machine called the spike puller is were i put my lunch box first day on job,i however worked back at the machine replacing the tie,i marked the tie so operator new were to slide it under the track and i had to throw old busted up ties doen in jing weeds,well needless to say when break happened my first day i learned my lesson that these pieces of equipment can be mikes apart lest leaving my lunch about 3 miles away!!!😂and the guys took of me but ya it was a LONG GRUELING DAY USUALLY 12-14 HRS we were all from western pa and all the work seemed to be up around cold water and saginaw michigan at that time 2004 i made $18 hr labor rate and $36 prevailing wage jobs.on a norm we would do 15 miles a day if i rembered right,o and they encourage you to smoke weed, that way if you get n u do,they are free n clear of comp claims.surprisingly you would think this equipment breaks down alot and ours was garb but it always kept on a movin.the only thing i can honestly say i hated was when we had to fix a switch.manual spike driving in which I COULD NEVER FIG OUT!!!!ART IN ITS OWN RIGHT!!!!ANYHOW REALLY NEET TO SEE IT DONE ON HERE!!!!

. I LOVED THIS VIDEO, SUCH PRECISE MACHINERY, I WILL WATCH THIS ONE AGAIN MANY TIMES I AM SURE.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Every 'watch' is appreciated! :-)

Very interesting I could watch that all day that looks fun.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

i would of never thought of it being done that way, your video educated me.

Amazing machines! Makes you wonder.

The reason concrete ties are not used much in the usa is because they tend to crumble under the heavy tonnage trains that we run here.

One way or another, this has been done many times in the history of The Old Main Line, including replacement of the rails. This line (now freight only) carried its first trains in 1830.

Great Photography--hard to follow action and focus was spot on--

So many wacky and wonderful machines!

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to share it!!

Thanks for filming that, I always wondered how all that was done. Great job!

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

At 26:50 I see a brick, cut in half on side of the hydrolic arm. Must be for their for a reason, another awesome mantaince of way video. 👍👍👍

Tie gang line up: lead ballast regulator, paint buggy, spike puller(2), scrapper, anchor spreader(2), trip1 (pulls old ties), magnets(2-3), tie handler (dead wood), tie handler(new wood)(2), trip machine (put in trip)(2), plate broom, rail lift(2), tri machine, spiker/hammer(3), anchor squeezer, anchor cart, fill in regulator, tamper1, finish regulator, tamper2, ballast stabilizer, finish regulator(rear regulator).... its a lot to replace ties. ties are king, we can potentially have unlimited overtime replacing ties. you won't find that on a rail gang or surfacing gang. They are doing a 4 spike curve(normal tangent track is 3 spikes, 2 inside the gage and 1 outside). A 4 spike curve has an extra "hold down" spike on the outside of the gage and a 5 spike curve will have another "hold down" on the inside of the gage. These machines break on the daily and are usually totally rebuilt every 3 years at Bryan park in Richmond Virginia. I've been the guy feeding spikes for 2 and a half months and it is torture! I recently got put on the anchor cart which is much better(you get to walk the tracks). Machines are picked by seniority and have 3 different pay grades

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all that info! I would think the man feeding the spikes, sitting in the machine, has the better job than the one outside walking...

@ireckless44

Жыл бұрын

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR maybe in the rain but most of the times I can deal with a little rain rather than being in that f***ing machine feeding spikes lol

Nice video of a MOW train.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

These types of videos are always cool.

What an engineering marvel. But I have to admit the machine creeps me out.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

This is truly amazing to see!🚂👍👍👍🚂

Nice. You could fish and watch trains Now that's the life..

The funny thing about all of this... a machine removes and replaces the whole railroad tie, a machine removes the spikes, another collects the spikes, another measures and centers the rails, another respreads the rock... but it takes an actual guy to put the spike plates back on the ties for the machine to replace spike or the whole process doesn't work. This must be what in the union they call job security.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

8 жыл бұрын

haha!

@ArchTeryx00

7 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, it's more efficient. Notice how the tie plates have to be precisely aligned over the tie? A machine can't align to that precision "on the fly" - but a human being can. If they weren't aligned properly, you'd have spikes being driven into thin air instead of into the ties - bad for your railroad. In this case it ain't union job security, it's because the railroad wants it that way. It actually gets done faster by hand then by machine, one of the few MoW tasks that do.

@charlieirvin5423

7 жыл бұрын

this is really amazing what Machines can do i am Really Fascinated with this video. keep posting

@darrelcount4772

7 жыл бұрын

JessicaTG2008

@truedonblue3949

7 жыл бұрын

Yea, really amazing to be unemployed huh!. the video does not show you the constant break down and maintenance that goes with owning these things.

Really well done video. Great camera work and great audio!

This is odly satisfying

Pretty slick operation

Because: If you pull all the ties out at the same time there is nothing to hold the gauge of the rails, therefore your machinery falls through and is derailed. Pretty simple. American railroads DO use concrete ties, mostly on heavily traffic main lines. There are also places where concrete deteriorates rapidly due to weather conditions, no point in using them.

@ethantism

8 жыл бұрын

in Ontario they use concrete for passenger

@fstop6139

7 жыл бұрын

Concrete ties are more costly and they don't hold up to damage as the wooden ones do.

This is Like Robots Have Taken Over This Is So Cool!

Wow the way they pick up the spikes is so satisfying good video. 👍👍👍

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤗

In my train travels through China I was simply amazed with the rail service and smoothness of the trains. I noticed their railroad ties are made of reinforced concrete which I have also observed in European countries. Seems like the US is way behind the times.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

5 жыл бұрын

Our passenger trains use them, but our freight trains still use the wooden ones.

@usaf6387

5 жыл бұрын

@@BaltimoreAndOhioRR Did not know that, haven't used passenger rail service in 40 years. My experience wasn't good then.

I like the brick taped to the plate positioner for weight adjustment at 26:19!

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

8 жыл бұрын

haha yep!

@billschlitz2613

7 жыл бұрын

BaltimoreAndOhioRR

Thanks for this, nice to see so many different machines. Shame the tamper/liner near the end wasn't operating...

In the old days, pulling spikes was a blood and sweat job...

I remember seeing these a lot by my elementary school when I was younger

Captivant from 17:55 To min 35:55, it seems to make more fuel waste, all kinds of works of leveling and arrangement of stones over ties . after replacing ties .. But according Wikipedia = Concrete ties are cheaper and easier to obtain than timber and better able to carry higher axle-weights and sustain higher speeds. Their greater weight ensures improved retention of track geometry, especially when installed with continuous-welded rail. Concrete ties have a longer service life and require less maintenance than timber due to their greater weight, which helps them remain in the correct position longer. Concrete ties need to be installed on a well-prepared subgrade with an adequate depth on free-draining ballast to perform well. Concrete ties amplify wheel noise, so wooden ties are often used in densely populated areas. In more recent times, a number of companies are selling composite railroad ties manufactured from recycled plastic resins,[6] and recycled rubber. Manufacturers claim a service life longer than wooden ties with an expected lifetime in the range of 30-80 years, that the ties are impervious to rot and insect attack,[7][8][9] and that they can be modified with a special relief on the bottom to provide additional lateral stability.[7] In some main track applications the hybrid plastic tie has a recessed design to be completely surrounded by ballast. Aside from the environmental benefits of using recycled material, plastic ties usually replace timber ties soaked in creosote, the latter being a toxic chemical,[10] and are themselves recyclable.[7] Hybrid plastic railroad ties and composite ties are used in other rail applications such as underground mining operations,[11] industrial zones, humid environments and densely populated areas. Hybrid railroad ties are also used to be partly exchanged with rotten wooden ties, which will result in continuous track stiffness. Hybrid plastic ties and composite ties also offer benefits on bridges and viaducts, because they lead to better distribution of forces and reduction of vibrations into respectively bridge girders or the ballast. This is due to better damping properties of hybrid plastic ties and composite ties, which will decrease the intensity of vibrations as well as the sound production.[12] In 2009, Network Rail announced that they were to begin replacing wooden ties with recycled plastic ones made by I-Plas ltd of Halifax, West Yorkshire;[13] but then I-Plas went into insolvency in October 2012.[14] The Cable TV series Factory Made has a segment on the manufacture of plastic ties.[15] In 2012, New Zealand ordered a trial batch of "EcoTrax" brand recycled composite ties from Axion for use on turnouts and bridges.[16][17] In 2014 the KLP® Hybrid Plastic Tie of Lankhorst Engineered Products of Sneek, The Netherlands, won the Privatbahn Magazin Innovation Award in the category Track and Infrastructure.[18] [19] Ties may also be made from fiberglass.[20] Non-conventional tie forms[edit] Y-shaped ties[edit] Y tie track next to conventional track An unusual form of tie is the Y-shaped tie, first developed in 1983. Compared to conventional ties the volume of ballast required is reduced due to the load-spreading characteristics of the Y-tie.[21] Noise levels are high but the resistance to track movement is very good.[22] For curves the three-point contact of a Y steel tie means that an exact geometric fit cannot be observed with a fixed attachment point. The cross section of the ties is an I-beam.[23] As of 2006 less than 1,000 km of Y-tie track had been built, of which approximately 90-percent is in Germany.[21] Twin ties[edit] The ZSX Twin tie is manufactured by Leonhard Moll Betonwerke GmbH & Co KG and is a pair of two pre-stressed concrete ties longitudinally connected by four steel rods.[24] The design is said to be suitable for track with sharp curves, track subject to temperature stress such as that operated by trains with eddy brakes, bridges and as transition track between traditional track and slab track or bridges.[25] Wide ties[edit] Concrete monoblock ties have also been produced in a wider form (e.g. 57 cm (22 in)) such that there is no ballast between the ties; this wide tie increases lateral resistance and reduces ballast pressure.[26][27][28] The system has been used in Germany[29] where wide ties have also been used in conjunction with the GETRAC A3 ballastless track systems.[30][31] Bi-block (or twinblock) ties consist of two concrete rail supports joined by a steel bar. Advantages include increased lateral resistance and lower weight than monobloc concrete ties, as well as elimination of damage from torsional forces on the ties center due the more flexible steel connections.[32] This tie type is in common use in France,[33] and are used on the high-speed TGV lines.[34] Bi-block ties are also used in ballastless track systems.[33] Frame ties (German: Rahmenschwelle) comprise both lateral and longitudinal members in a single monolithic concrete casting.[23] This system is in use in Austria;[23] in the Austrian system the track is fastened at the four corners of the frame, and is also supported midway along the frame. Adjacent frame ties are butted close to each other. Advantages of this system over conventional cross increased support of track. In addition, construction methods used for this type of track are similar to those used for conventional track.[35] Ladder track In ladder track the ties are laid parallel to the rails and are several metres long. The structure is similar to Brunel's baulk track; these longitudinal sleepers can be used with ballast, or with elastomer supports on a solid non-ballasted support. Fastening rails to railway sleepers Various methods exist for fixing the rail to the railway sleeper. Historically spikes gave way to cast iron chairs fixed to the tie, more recently springs (such as Pandrol clips) are used to fix the rail to the tie chair. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie#cite_note-24

@inconspicuous_ox

7 жыл бұрын

Baron Local concrete ties can deteriorate faster than wood ones in America

I remember back in the 60 crews out of port Jarvis would weeks to get to otisville N.Y.. look on map and figure out mileage. All by hand. Good summer time job.

Great job on this video. They are doing this near my home.

really good vide work.. such interesting gizzmos..

What an amazing detailed video. Thanks for uploading.

Cool MOW stuff

The machines are taking over!

Great tie gang footage. I do wish there were few more shots that showed the entire machines. Pity that DynaCAT wasn't working. that is an amazing machine to watch.

that is some very completed machinery.

Knife Party said "Say hello to the robots!"

Wonderful Machinery

In 1969 I worked for Norfolk & Western Railroad out of Moberly, Missouri on an “extra tie gang,” we took out old ties & put in new ones. It took 5 machines and 28 laborers & gandy dancers using tie-tongs, tamping bars, claw bars, picks/shovels, rail tongs, spiking mauls, & lining bars all day to do what I seen them do in this video, we did about a half a mile or so a day, it looked like the machines in this video did that much in just a couple of hours if not faster. Ah progress, the laborers & gandy dancers I worked with were like family, we ate together in our traveling dining car & slept in the bunk cars, we had a close camaraderie that I only felt in the Army. We busted our asses 10 hours a day, 5 days a week for a measly $150.00 dollars a week. But in 1969 that was big money. I miss working side by side with men sweating to get the job done, & feeling good about it afterwards, this video makes the job look so boring & robotic & monotonous! 👎

Those abandoned railroad spikes would be good for a collection

@inconspicuous_ox

7 жыл бұрын

Clank Trap I used to go to the train station with my family and pick up old spikes that were right by the platform

Awesome work, enjoyed watching it.

@kuldeepraman4944

8 жыл бұрын

jjkkkk

Very nice!

incredibly awesome!

That is some noisy, dirty, mind numbing, work.

@Rockin_Roll

8 жыл бұрын

+Dave Schuetrum they probably get paid very well....I would imagine

@TheNemosdaddy

8 жыл бұрын

+justin case Not as well as you'd think. Just lower middle class type wages.

@DumbCarGuy

8 жыл бұрын

+Dave Schuetrum Thats why you work in an office

@mytfy1

8 жыл бұрын

+ImpsMyPimp We made pretty good money.

@railfanallen

7 жыл бұрын

Something like this should be on Dirty Jobs.

Fascinating! To me anyway. I want the job loading spikes!

This is a great video, showing the huge efforts required for maintenance of the train tracks. It would take millions of dollars, a large complex and crew to just buy and keep these track machines repaired and maintained (a huge amount of moving parts!). Thanks for taking the time to put this together and share with us viewers. My entire career was in construction but I never thought about what it takes to keep a track system maintained! I would have enjoyed this as a career........I think. I hope to see more of this on your channel as I've subscribed. ....13

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

7 жыл бұрын

thx, i subbed back!

@arkansas1336

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, public comments are the only thing I'll ever post, too old to try something new!

Great video.

I fell sleep watching this one time

I need a full 8 hours of this.

21:24 looks like there is a rubber duck on the from of that machine!

@DavidKott

4 жыл бұрын

Connor B there is LOL

Flipping sweet that's cool man

My son loves this video.

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

9 жыл бұрын

mtdewramen I am glad! Thanks for commenting!

Sorry I would not give you a dollar for any of those worthless machines. except for the tie placing machine that did awesome work no man could do.

@priority6885

7 жыл бұрын

True Don Blue machines do it faster you know? THATS WHY THEY MADE THEM!

Amazing video!

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

amazing work

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

imaging poor dude or gal who goes to bed and dreaming about railroad spikes lol

great work thanks for sharing

@BaltimoreAndOhioRR

8 жыл бұрын

+Noel Coffey thx for commenting!

That's inmate work right there